Floral Arches Birthday Cards - Simon Says Stamp Every Happiness Release

Good morning! I have more inspiration to share with the BRAND NEW Every Happiness release from Simon Says Stamp - today a set of soft and dreamy floral birthday cards! I'm always a sucker for pretty arches, and adding stitching to this new set makes them even more amazing. Paired with lovely stamp layered florals?!? Perfection!

For these cards, I started by cutting a window in A2 panels of Starlight cardstock using one of the new A2 Stitched Arches dies. I stamped and layered up a few of the new Forest Forage in Summer set using Honey, Blush, Ballerina, Cookie, and Sprout inks to tuck into the arches. Before adhering them all together, I blended some Butter and Cheeky inks each on one cardbase to add a bit of color behind them. Then I tucked and arranged, adding liquid glue to adhere, and fluffing up each piece of foliage for tiny bits of dimension. The small sentiments are from that same set, and the larger birthday sentiment is from another new set - Daisy Frame - that has so many perfect sentiments in a stunning font! I finished off with a few coordinating Butter and Bubblegum Dazzling Gems. Here are more photos of these soft and pretty cards:

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Lovely Lemon Shaped Card - Simon Says Stamp Every Happiness Release

Good evening! I'm super excited for the gorgeous BRAND NEW Every Happiness release from Simon Says Stamp, and kicking it off with a soft and sweet shaped card! I adore lemons, and this stunning set that is part of the new release not only includes a stamp and die, but stencils for coloring! Could it get any better?!? And this design just felt meant for a shaped card design - I love how it came out!

I started off by stamping the image from Squeeze You in Latte ink, then leaving it lined up in my MISTI to restamp afterwards, I moved on to ink blending the image. I used Butter, Zest, and Honey for the lemons, and Spring, Dublin, and Lucky for the greenery. A bit of White Pigment ink was perfect for the inside of the lemon slice to soften it up, Cheeky for the flowers, and then some Cappuccino took care of the branch color. Once it was all ink blended, I put it back in my MISTI and restamped over with the same Latte ink. I thought about doing black ink, but I loved how soft it looked, so I decided to stick with this. Restamping helped crisp up all those details though! I created a shaped card with the previously released Chunky Scalloped Ovals from white cardstock paired with the new Chunky Ovals dies scored and adhered for the back of the card (scroll down a couple photos to see that), and also a panel of Cream cardstock for the front. I love how these dies work together! I added the images and stamped sentiment, tied a little white twine bow, some white gel pen accents, then embellished with a few Clear Dazzling Gems to finish it off! Here are more photos of all the details:

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Embossed Floral Encouragement Cards - Simon Says Stamp

Good morning! Today I've got a simple trio of encouragement cards featuring a beautiful embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp, as well as one of my favorite sentiment sets! Do you recognize those colors as well? Yep...I also used up some leftovers from THESE cards that I posted a couple days ago! I mean, when you have pretty leftovers sitting nearby, what's a girl to do?!?

I had 3 panels leftover that had been cut from some of Lawn Fawn Schoolyard cardstock pack with a Nested Stitched Rectangle die. I had been wanting to use the pretty Peony Trio embossing folder, so I centered each panel in the embossing folder and ran it through. The good part about doing this, is if you die cut AFTER embossing, you flatten out the embossed image. So this way I had the pretty stitched edge already on there, and also a nice deep embossed impression. I popped those up with foam adhesive on a white cardbase, added sentiments from Inside Greetings 1, and then wrapped around coordinating Prima Yarn to tie in a bow. I thought about gems, but these were just too perfect as they were to mess with them! Here is a closer look at each one:

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Summer Days - Simon Says Stamp

Good morning! Who else is having some hot weather in their neck of the woods? Summer has hit with full force here in the Pacific Northwest, and it definitely feels like summer. Yesterday I pulled out some supplies from Simon Says Stamp, and was clearly inspired by that feeling for the card I have to share today! 

As soon as I saw the Bring on the Sun set, I knew this swimsuit looked like the perfect image for some paper piecing with pattern paper! I grabbed some Simple Stories Color Me Happy pattern papers in small designs, and stamped and fussy cut each one out. I then glued them on the same image stamped on white cardstock. Once I had all 3 done, I used the coordinating die to cut each one out. I used another piece of the same pattern paper pad for the background of the card, then die cut a partial circle from white cardstock using the largest Stitched Circle die. This provided the perfect place to adhere my images, and a sentiment from the same set. I also added a few Trinity Bubble Blow Out embellishments, as well as a loop of Lawn Fawn white twine tied in a bow! Here is a closer look at this summery card:

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Framed Up Birthday Wishes Cards - Simon Says Stamp

Good morning! So...since I had something small leftover from yesterday's cards, you know I had to turn them into their own cards, right?!? I used leftovers and pretty much the same supplies from Simon Says Stamp to create an entirely different look for today's cards! They are still sentiment heavy, but in a different way than yesterday's cards!

For these, I used the other frames leftover from cutting out the panels for yesterday's cards. You can check out all the details for these cards HERE if you want to know how I created those panels. You can only see a touch of them here, but I think they were still fun enough to feature instead of throwing away. I added an internal frame with a panel of the same colors of Lawn Fawn Schoolyard papers, by cutting a slightly smaller Stitched Rectangle and nesting it inside. I ink blended a bit of soft color on the top and bottom of white cardbases to soften that part a bit using coordinating Straw, Jade, and Shell inks. I then built sentiments with the Big Old Birthday set too fill the bottom space of the card, and layered up foam strips between each of the frame layers. Finished off with the same coordinating gems in Sunbeam, Sprout, and Mandarin! Here are more photos of these framed up cards:

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